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Asphalt Jungle

	Asphalt Jungle
	by MGM (Warner) Sales Rank: 20184 Price: $19.98

The dark urban world of <I>The Asphalt Jungle</I> is one of the essential destinations in film noir, but be warned: despite tough guy Sterling Hayden's dreams of bucolic escape, there is no way out. John Huston directed this superbly calibrated crime classic, which displays his usual wry appreciation of fringies and down-and-outers. This time the task for Huston's eccentric ensemble is a jewel robbery, which--this being a Huston film--can't possibly work out as well as its plan. The cast includes Sam Jaffee, indelible as a criminal mastermind, and the pre-stardom Marilyn Monroe. Hayden plays the kind of mug he would revisit in Stanley Kubrick's <I>The Killing</I>, which is an informal homage to this film. And the film's look is definitive: both artful and gritty, it creates a noir landscape that traps its people just as surely as the tar pits trapped the dinosaurs. No wonder they call it noir. <I>--Robert Horton</I> *Viewer Reviews* Despite the fact that THE ASPHALT JUNGLE was a film noir that came out in 1950, as the noir cycle was beginning to shift focus, this movie is one of the classics of the film noir genre. From the sterling acting (no pun intended) of Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe and the rest of the cast to the superb direction of John Huston, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE is a film noir that portrays criminals who commit a heist as human beings with motivations and flaws, and it is this that gives the film its true sense of tragedy when the final reel finishes rolling. A terrific movie that provides the audience an early look at one Marilyn Monroe, this film noir about a criminal heist gone wrong is 1950 film noir at its best. Back To Top
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